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Pedagogy in ProcessAccess Intimacy in Academic SpacesHost Nicolas Shannon Savard and (returning guest!) Katya Vrtis turn their practice of crip theorizing-in-process to Mia Mingus’ concept of access intimacy and the possibilities it offers as a way of thinking about and practicing accessibility in higher education. Key Questions: What is access intimacy, and what interventions might it make where higher ed’s other models of accessibility (ADA, Universal Design, DEI) fall short? How did you come to thinking about and practicing access intimacy in the academic/artistic spaces you inhabit? In other words, for you, why did access intimacy feel so nece...2024-02-2041 min
Pedagogy in ProcessDefusing Queerphobia in the ClassroomIn this episode, university arts educators share practical strategies for defusing homophobia and transphobia in the classroom while accounting for our increasingly polarized political realities across the U.S. Rather than combatting or fighting queerphobia, they present approaches they have used to keep students engaged in dialogue and promote inclusive, respectful classroom culture. The mini presentations feature: Michael Osinski, “Reframing and Revising Politicized Language”Lucas Skjaret, “Keeping the Faith: Queer Mediations/Meditations at a Parochial University”Sidney Monroe Williams, “Are you a Gay Black or a Black Gay Professor? Butch Queen Disidentifications within Academia”Winter Phong...2023-12-1336 min
Pedagogy in ProcessMaking Monsters: A disability history of trans politicsNicolas, Dr. Katya Vrtis and Kairos Looney continue their discussion on what disability history can teach us about the contemporary wave of anti-trans politics. Bringing together performance studies with queer-/crip and critical race theories, the conversation serves as a space to theorize collaboratively, to process, to strategize modes of resistance. This conversation was presented under the title “We Are/Not Monsters: Queer/-Crip Theorizing in Process” at the 2023 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference. It was co-sponsored by the LGBTQ+ and Disability, Theatre, and Performance (DTAP) Focus Groups. KEY QUESTIONS 1. What does it mean to be a...2023-11-0326 minPedagogy in ProcessMaking Monsters: Queer-crip theorizing in processHost Nicolas Shannon Savard is joined by Dr. Katya Vrtis and Kairos Looney to unpack the contemporary wave of anti-trans politics. Bringing together performance studies with queer-/crip and critical race theories, the conversation serves as a space to theorize collaboratively, to process, to strategize modes of resistance. This conversation was presented under the title “We Are/Not Monsters: Queer/-Crip Theorizing in Process” at the 2023 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference. It was co-sponsored by the LGBTQ+ and Disability, Theatre, and Performance (DTAP) Focus Groups. KEY QUESTIONS 1. What does it mean to be a mo...2023-11-0332 min
Pedagogy in ProcessRoundtable Pt. 3: Where the Past Touches the PresentPedagogy in Process—a podcast by and for educators working at the intersections of social justice, the arts, and the humanities. This episode is part 3 of the Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable series of conversations with theatre historians, artists, and educators. Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: What discoveries arise through queer archival strategies focused on repair? What technologies or strategies do we use to confront the limiting, censoring, or destruction of archives? How do we advocate for reparative archival practices? For practices that may remedy intergenerational br...2023-10-2039 minPedagogy in ProcessRoundtable Pt. 2: Queer Failure, Queer PossibilityPedagogy in Process—a podcast by and for educators working at the intersections of social justice, the arts, and the humanities. This episode is part two of the Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable series of conversations with theatre historians, artists, and educators. Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: What are the different ways queerness has emerged and/or been defined in the time periods and locations we study? How have the constraints of existing archives caused (invited? necessitated?) what Jack Halberstam calls "queer failure”? Where do we s...2023-10-1829 minPedagogy in ProcessQueer Praxis Roundtable, Pt. 1: Disrupting White Supremacy in Theatre HistoryPedagogy in Process—a podcast by and for educators working at the intersections of social justice, the arts, and the humanities. Host Nicolas Shannon Savard invites queer theatre artist-educator-historians Janet Werther, Kelli Crump, Jordan Ealy, Victoria Lafave to dig into how we bring a queer eye to history in the classroom, what power and responsibility we have as queer artist-educators to disrupt white supremacy in the archive and our institutions and strategies for building solidarity.This conversation is part of a longer roundtable dialogue which was presented as part of the 2023 Association for Theatre in Higher Ed...2023-10-1645 minPedagogy in ProcessWelcome to Pedagogy in Process!Pedagogy in Process is an independent podcast by and for educators working at the intersections of social justice and the arts and humanities.This podcast seeks to create a space for educators to be in dialogue; for complicated, thorny questions with no easy answers; for honesty and vulnerability; for being really, really nerdy; for staring down impossible challenges but deciding to tackle them anyway; for working through it all together. This podcast will hold space for generative, messy, complex, challenging, always important conversations with fellow educators. 2023-10-1104 min
Transformation Thursday40 - Gender Expansiveness in Theater with Nicolas Shannon SavardIn this episode Amy and Penny and chat with Nicolas Shannon Savard who is working on their PhD at The Ohio State University. Nicolas is researching representations of transgender and other gender non-conforming people in the performance arts, by looking at what projects are available for GNC persons, how many times trans/GNC people have to write and perform their own material creating their own opportunities to perform, and how cisgender people are playing trans characters and the problems this creates. Additionally, the three discuss the reactions Nicolas, Amy, and Penny get from audiences to their work as an...2020-04-1635 min